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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
\n<\/strong>Print History and Culture, Labour in Literary and Material Production, Material Culture, Authorship, Periodical Studies, Books about Books, Experiential Learning, Book Arts, Technology and Print.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CURRENT RESEARCH:
\n<\/strong>My research focuses on the transnational typographical trade of the mid-to-late nineteenth century and early twentieth century in Northeastern North America, with specific attention to typographical trade journals. I approach these periodicals through a feminist and transnational book historical lens that is attentive to the dynamics of race making. I examine the ways in which definitions and conceptualizations of \u201cskill\u201d are constructed by white male printers and compositors in Canada and the United States (and, to an extent, in Britain) at the end of the century, both in union policies\/documents and in the trade\u2019s journals. Expanding upon scholarship that has tended to focus on the relationship of \u201cskill\u201d to gender\/sex, I consider the ways that the continued re-definition of \u201cskill\u201d in the North American trade during the period excluded those folks who were often deemed \u201cunskilled\u201d and threats or outsiders to the white, male-dominated trade\u2019s masculine craft identity, such as white women, other white men (i.e.: apprentices), immigrants, and racialized minorities. Additionally, my work considers the important contributions these excluded groups made to fin-de-si\u00e8cle print culture to de-center the white male as the protagonist of nineteenth-century print culture in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLICATIONS:
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
\n– Jody Mason and Sarah Pelletier. \u201c\u2018Singular Plurality\u2019: Settler Colonial Transcendence and Canada\u2019s 2021 Guest-of-Honour Campaign at the Frankfurt Book Fair.\u201d Book History<\/em> 26, no. 2 (Fall 2023): 467-96. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/bh.2023.a910956<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Reviews
– Jody Mason and Sarah Pelletier. Review of The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business<\/em>, by Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires. Publishing History<\/em> 87 (2023): 87-92.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other
\n– Jody Mason and Sarah Pelletier, \u201cSurvey of Indigenous-Owned Publishers in Canada and Report for Government Stakeholders in Canada\u2019s Guest-of-Honour Campaign at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2020\/21,\u201d Book History Unbound<\/em> (2023), https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/book-history-unbound\/2023\/mason-pelletier\/<\/a>.
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CONFERENCES:

<\/strong>Sarah Pelletier. \u201cWives, Sisters, Daughters, and Sometimes Workers: Women Typesetters and the Patriarchal Voice of The Printer\u2019s Miscellany<\/em>.\u201d Paper presented on the panel \u201cWorkers\u2019 Voices in and Behind the Periodical Press\u201d at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals\u2019 Annual Conference, Voices and Visions of the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press<\/em>. 10-12 July 2025. Loyola University, Chicago, USA. https:\/\/rs4vp.org\/rsvp-conference\/past-conferences\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pelletier. \u201cNineteenth-Century Canadian Typographical Trade Journals and the (Trans)National Significance of the International Art Printer<\/em> (Owen Sound, Ontario 1895-189?).\u201d Paper presented on the panel \u201cShips, Missions, Settlements: Nineteenth-Century Printers\u201d at the Bibliographical Society of Canada\u2019s Annual Conference, New Histories of the Small Press \/ Nouvelles histoires des petites maisons d\u2019\u00e9dition<\/em>. 5-6 June 2025. George Brown College, Toronto, Ontario, Congress 2025. https:\/\/www.bsc-sbc.ca\/en\/conference\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pelletier. \u201c\u2018Can Canada support such a printers\u2019 magazine, or is our country too small for that?\u2019: Plotting a (Trans)National Trade Through the Typographical Trade Press, 1873-1895.\u201d Paper presented on the panel \u201cTrades and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Production\u201d at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals\u2019 Annual Conference, Place in the Victorian Periodical Press<\/em>. 13-15 June, 2024. University of Stirling, Scotland. https:\/\/rs4vp.org\/rsvp-conference\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pelletier. \u201cA Network of Roots: the sun and her flowers<\/em>, Instagram, and Rupi Kaur\u2019s Diasporic Multimodal Authorship.\u201d English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) Annual Conference, Community\/Solitude: The Poetics and Praxis of Life in Transition<\/em>. 5-6 May, 2023. Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pelletier. \u201cInterrogating the \u2018Art Preservative\u2019: Letterpress Printing Today and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture.\u201d Nineteenth-Century Studies Association 44th<\/sup> Annual Conference, Remaking the Past<\/em>. 30 March \u2013 01 April, 2023. Sacramento, California. https:\/\/ncsaweb.net\/conferences\/ncsa-sacramento-2023-conference-program\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jody Mason and Sarah Pelletier. \u201c\u2018Singular Plurality\u2019: Settler Colonial Transcendence and Canada\u2019s 2021 Guest-of-Honour Campaign at the Frankfurt Book Fair.\u201d Paper presented on the panel \u201c(Re)Presenting Indigenous Literatures in Canada and Quebec: Defining, Publishing, Promoting\u201d at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Annual Conference, Power of the Written Word<\/em>. 11-15 July 2022. Amsterdam\/Online Hybrid. Forthcoming. https:\/\/sharp2022.nl\/programme\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pelletier. \u201cPrinting and Pedagogy.\u201d Presentation delivered at the panel and showcase \u201cCultures of the Small Press in Canada: Broadsides in the BAL\u201d at the EGSS Carleton Annual Conference, The Literary Ordinary: Normality, Banality, and the Cultural Production of the Everyday<\/em>. 01 May 2022. Ottawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pelletier. \u201c\u2018Composed, I only give the hint, \/ Of multifarious small things\u2019: The Everyday Work Behind Letterpress-Printed Objects.\u201d Presentation delivered at: The EGSS Carleton Annual Conference, The Literary Ordinary: Normality, Banality, and the Cultural Production of the Everyday<\/em>. 30 April 2022. Online Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pelletier. \u201c\u2018Neither boy nor man<\/em>\u2019: Historicizing the Ironic Gendering of the Canadian Modernist Little Magazine.\u201d Paper presented at: The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL), ACQL Annual Conference<\/em>. 29-31 May 2021. Online Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pelletier and Julia Warren. \u201cThe Tragicomedy of Saturday Night <\/em>and the Exploration of the Narrative of Archives.\u201d Panelists at the Book History and Print Culture Graduate Student Colloquium, Books Beyond Reading<\/em>. 10 March 2018. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. https:\/\/bhpccolloquium2018.wordpress.com\/confirmed-papers\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
\n<\/strong>– Research Assistant for Janice Schroeder. Department of English, Carleton University. Summer 2022 and Summer 2023.
\n– Research Assistant for Jody Mason. Department of English, Carleton University. Sept 2020 \u2013 May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE:
\n<\/strong>Course Instructor
\n– ENGL 3500B: Literatures and Cultures, 1700-1900 (Winter 2024)
\n  Topic:<\/strong> Reading Like It\u2019s 1700-1900: Transatlantic Print Culture, Periodicals, Books, and Authorship<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other
\n– Senior Book Arts Lab Assistant. MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. November 2023 \u2013 Present.
\n– Book Arts Lab Assistant. MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. Jan 2022 \u2013 November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>SERVICE:
\n<\/strong>– Outreach Coordinator. SHARP News.<\/em> 2024 \u2013 Present.
\n– Co-Founder and President, Carleton Book Arts Society. Carleton University. 2023-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWARDS:
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